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What do you eat when you have your teeth pulled out? A bowl of chew-friendly Chinese porridge/congee. (I had all four of my wisdom teeth extracted last Friday and this is what I have been eating.)

For ingredients, Rasa Malaysia recommends dried oyster and chicken breast fillet. Top the porridge with fresh shredded ginger, chopped scallions, a few drops of sesame oil and a dash of white pepper powder…you will feel better in no time…

pls. i would like to have a recipe of your congee w/ pork and dried oysters. i’ve always wanted to know how make that dish. every time i eat at dimsum, that’s the first thing i order, but i don’t get to go to dimsum place cuz it’s an hour drive where i lived. i would appreciate it so much if u will share your recipe. thanks……………

Mmm kai Chook. Men and women from afar have been known to embark on culinary pilgrimages just for a fix. Finely shredded steam chicken, lots of pepper and top with crispy euw char kueh. Great midnight snack. Nice work on the weekend pubication and hope the tooth fairy visits. As we say here, Cheers Big ears:-)

We make a broth from either chicken or pork bones. The rice has to be jasmine rice – basmati doesn’t come together as well. What else goes in depends on what is on hand. Chicken, pork, fish, dried scallop, century egg, fermented tofu, green onions, cilantro, fried shallots or garlic, preserved vegetable, white pepper…the possibilities are endless. However I’ve not done dried oysters before.

We don’t make our own you tiao but do get it if we’re having porridge at East Lake Seafood Restaurant in San Jose.

I feel for your mouth: when i had my four wisdom teeth out under general anaesthetic just before I went to university years ago my face swelled up to three times its size and yellow, purple and black bruises welted my chest. Hideous…. Mum fed me junket and yoghurt and soup.Re congee: I feel like I missed out when I lived in HK… I just never really got into it and now, back in Melbourne, looking at your post, I’m sad about that!

Stephanie – oh no, swelling face? I am lucky because I do not like a swollen face, well, maybe just a little but not 3x the size of my face. Don’t be sad about congee, you can make it yourself at home…really easy.

SC – ooooh, yes, salted eggs, how can I forget that?!

FBB – wah, abalone with porridge, that’s the first time I heard of that topping, but don’t you think it’s a little sayang to take porridge with abalone. Yes, Cantonese creamy style is awesome. Mine was half way there because I was too impatient to wait for them to boil…haha.

Poor you with the teeth. I just had two out one by one, and that was not nice at all, so sending lots of warm fuzzies your way.Get better soon!

I like all rice porridge, salted fish/eggs, century eggs, pig intestines and offal like kidney and liver! Fish porridge, chicken porridge, pork mince porridge with that orange preserved veg – well looks like if you make porridge with it I will enjoy it :)

May – OK, drum roll please? My brother used to work in China and he told me that some Chinese food processors make fake scallops with snakes! He saw that with his own eyes…I am not kidding!!! He said they peel the skin of the snakes off, then pull out their little bones, and then cut them up and dry them. Think about it…the snake flesh is creaming white and scallops too. After they are dried, you can’t tell as snakes are supposed to taste good too hence people use snakes to cook soup in China. So that’s my scary story…

A dash of soy sauce.A dash of pepper.Golden fried chopped garlic with the oil.Oooh, and that preserved black shredded olives that comes in those jars.MMM, GOOD!And for colour, a few ringlets of spring onions wouldn’t hurt.

Mine kinda weird…. I love porridge. Just like everyone love to eat rice. I rather choose to eat porridge than rice nowadays. However, My favourite ingredients for porridge is pumpkin and chicken; dried scallop and dried mushroom; oyster mushrooms with seaweed…Kinda weird right? But I just love it..

I was looking for congee recipe I could send to my sister’s bf because she just had her wisdom tooth extracted. I bumped into your website but didn’t find recipe. The photo looks inviting, guess I have to look elsewhere for now (but I can’t wait to check back for updates on this).